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Life simulator games, or life simulators, are simulation games in which the player lives or controls an (or several) artificial lives. Generally, life simulators games belong to several genres, for instance Little Computer People is also a god game and the games of the Harvest Moon series are also economic simulation games. Jones in the Fast Lane is perhaps one of the more "pure" life simulation titles.
A classification similar to life simulation games is communication adventure.
Example titles
- Alter Ego a personality computer game released by Activision in 1986
- Animal Crossing, a life simulator for GameCube
- Creatures series, by Creature Labs/Gameware Development
- Lion, simulates the life of a lion pride.
- Jones in the Fast Lane by Sierra Entertainment is one of the earliest life simulators
- Little Computer People by David Crane, published by Activision for Apple II and Commodore 64 (1985)
- ''The Harvest Moon series
- My Life My Love (Boku no Yume - Watashi no Negai), a life simulation for Famicom
- Odell Lake, a fish life simulator
- SimAnt, an ant simulator
- The Sims by Will Wright, published by Electronic Arts for the PC (2000), and its sequel, The Sims 2.
See also
"Life simulation game"